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ATTORNEYS- dud/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JOSEPH WV. LOVE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AUGUST BECK, OF SAME PLACE.

ASH-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,224, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed September 4, 1888. Serial No. 284,588. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH IV. LOVE, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of sitters in which two screens are arranged at an angle to each other, so that mixed cinders and ashes pass from the upper screen onto and over the lower one and are delivered into different receptacles.

My invention is more particularly an improvement upon the sifter forming the subject of Patent No. 118,334, in which the lower screen forms the bottom of a chute whose upper side is an imperforate board or plate. In my si'fter the upper side of the chute is formed of an enlarged angular hood that serves also as an ashes-deflector.

. The details of construction and arrangement of parts are as hereinafter described, and shown in accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the ashsifter, part of the side broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical'central section on line 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The body A of the sifter has the usual rectangular shape, and is provided at the top with an opening having a hinged cover a, and at the bottom with a sliding drawer Z). The upper screen 0 and lower screen (1 are arranged at right angles to each other, as heretofore, so that mixed cinders and ashes deposited in the top opening of the sifter are partly separated by the first screen c,'and more completely by the second screen d, the cinders being discharged froin the side of the sifter and the ashes delivered into the drawer h, in the usual way. The angular hood B covers the top and sides of a chute whose bottom is the screen d. In addition to these functions, the hood touches and thus supports the lower middle portion of the upper screen 0, as best shown in Fig. 2. Spaces 6 are formed along the whole length of the sides of the hood B and lower screen (I, to allow passage of ashes downward into the drawer b. The ashes passing through the upper screen 0 fall upon the hood B, but find no lodgment there, being at once deflected laterally into the side passage e, while the cinders, together with the remnant of ashes still mixed with them, are delivered onto the lower screen d, by which the final and more complete separation is effected,

the remnant of ashes falling into the drawer b and the cinders escaping at f into any suitable receptacle that maybe provided. The hood thus forms the top of the chute, whose bottom is the screen d, and also serves to defiect ashes along the whole length of the lat- 7'0 ter.

hat I claim is- In the improvement hereinbefore specified, the combination, with the upper and lower screens inclined in opposite directions, of the interposed angular hood B, which extends to and supports the upper screen and forms the top or cover, as well as sides, of the lower screen, all as shown and described.

JOSEPH \V. LOVE.

Witnesses:

WM. H. MASSON, 'IHos. M. MORRIS.

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